Archive for Google
The big question about Ed Miliband
All hail the big data analysis that is Google's autocomplete function when asked about Ed Miliband.
Great political campaigners think big and think small
Two contrasting quotes I've come across recently capture the two conflicting approaches that good political campaigners need to reconcile.
A morbid but very useful new service from Google
Google’s Public Policy Blog has the news: Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans for what happens after you’re gone is really important for the people you leave behind. So today, we’re launching a new feature that makes it easy to tell Google what you want done [...]
What Google reveals about the current state of play in Eastleigh
The search results thrown up by Google often provide a neat little insight into what angles of a story are dominating coverage and people’s attention. The angles that get the most prominent coverage and the most interaction and responses are the ones that rise to the top of the search results. So what do they [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: smarter ways to find tickets, locating lost people and more
Welcome to the latest of my monthly collections for the Engine Group of five links that you shouldn’t miss. Putting 404 error pages to work: “Page not found, and neither is this person” http://bit.ly/OyMTDu A clever idea putting to good use those pesky ‘404 Page not found’ error messages which come up when you [...]
The sensible campaigner is the campaigner with backups
The office wall in one of my former jobs had a cartoon with two drunks slumped in an alleyway bemoaning their fate. One was saying to the other, “It all started to go wrong when I realised the backups hadn’t been working…” He at least had been trying to use backups. Sometimes people fear trusting [...]
10 top tools for getting the most out of Twitter
Not only can the volume of tweets be overwhelming, so too can the number of different tools offering to make your use of Twitter easier or more effective. Here then are my ten top tools, all of which are available for free, though some also have paid-for versions that are well worth getting. 1. Hootsuite [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: clever watches, smart companies and incredible valuations
Welcome to the latest of my monthly collections for the Engine Group of five links that you shouldn’t miss. Google does clever things with your photos http://bit.ly/JIYbxk Going where Google’s Streetview cars cannot reach… By using public photos from the internet, Google is putting together virtual 3-D tours of top tourist locations. Wander around Yosemite [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: evil infographics, stopping online tracking and more
Welcome to the latest of my monthly collections for the Engine Group of five links that you shouldn’t miss. Why your infographic is evil http://rww.to/HCs01I Your infographic but not mine, obviously. Contains three helpful tips on how to exorcise the evil from yours. Disconnect: how to stop sites tracking your data http://tcrn.ch/H84wR9 Put [...]
